Count among The Light of Asia's many, many admirers over 132 years: Gandhi, Tagore, Vivekananda, Nehru and Ambedkar, Tolstoy and Kipling, Yeats and Eliot, Alfred Nobel, Dmitri Mendeleev and C V......
There is a vocal constituency of educated, well-to-do, articulate Indian elites who would rather go with the idea that too much democracy is a liability.That India needs a spell of benevolent......
Stating that action is being initiated for the 'lapse', Union home ministry officials said there were discrepancies in the list issued by the Kendriya Police Kalyan Bhandar (central police welfare......
'The Left is dying, but its economic ideology rules, unchallenged.''Modi is its newest standard-bearer.''Even in today's bitterly polarised politics, if there is one thing on which not just the BJP......
'Many of the biggest events at such lit fests have nothing to do with books or authors, but about current events and the changing nature of society,' points out Aakar Patel. IMAGE: A performer at......
As Ayodhya readies itself for the glittering, much-awaited consecration ceremony of the Ram Mandir on January 22, and as millions of pilgrims and devotees pour into the holy city for the momentous......
Nearly 90 per cent of the stocks comprising the National Stock Exchange Nifty 500 Index and 49 of the 50 stocks that make up the Nifty50 are trading above their respective 200-day moving averages......
The Q1FY24 earnings season has started on a dismal note for corporate India. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The early-bird companies’ revenue growth has been at a 10-quarter low,......
The National Stock Exchange (NSE) Nifty Next 50 Index could undergo large-scale changes if the proposed tweaks to its computation methodology get implemented. Photograph: Francis......
As many as 15 companies, including Adani Copper Tubes, LG Electronics and Wipro Enterprises, with committed investment of Rs 1,368 crore, have been selected as beneficiaries under the PLI scheme......
'Dubbing for Rajiv Gandhi was very challenging.' 'Amitabh Bachchan told me, "I don't appreciate other people doing my voice".' Midway through Rediff.com's interview with Patcy N, Chetan Sashital......
To understand Rajesh Khanna's maniacal craze, one needed to have been born in the 1960s. What you see today in television re-runs is a mere rewind into shredded fading memories. It was sheer......
Yesteryear Bollywood actor Rajesh Khanna was on Saturday admitted to a hospital in suburban Bandra after his health condition deteriorated with suspected stomach infection. "Yes, Khanna has been......
IMAGE: Garry Kasparov during the World Chess Championships against Vladimir Kramnik at the Riverside Studios, London, in October-November 2000. Photograph: Andrew Redington/ALLSPORT/Getty......